The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-03-22
CAPITAL CHRONICLES.
A Number of Important Bills
Receive Attention.
The Bald kn0bbers Get a Lay
Over to the Next
Term.

school directors bill, aimed to make a
change in the manner of electing members
of the school board i'm ST. Louis. Drabelle
was shamefulIy abused by some of the St.
Louis members who opposed the bill, but
It passed by a vote of 7S ayes; 38 noes.
The bill goes TO the senate at once.
The senate this morning adopted the
house Joint and concurrent sine die resolu
ton, after changing the date to March
Dist instead of the 1871. The house will
also. adopt it as amended.
At the afternoon session of the house
the local option bill adopted by demo-
cratic caucus recently was passed by a
vote of S6 10 IS.
The senate bill AN, nding the statutes in
relation TO the competency of person on
trial, or the husband or wife of the accused
to testify, was passed. Senate bill provid-
ing that there shall be NO per diem paid
to members of the general assembly while
travelling to and from their homes to the
state capital was passed.
HOUSE
The house took up and passed the fol-
lowing bills House bill repeating the
state board of health act, enaciing in lieu
d
and surgeons to register, and when they
practice in cities Of over 5000 to report
births and deaths thin thirty days after
their occurrence house bill repeating the
act TO establish branch penitentiary.
House and senate took recess until 9
o'clock p. M.
In the senate this afternoon a protracted
debate occurred on a motion of Senator
Wood to refer the bill creating court of
appeals at springfield, with the house
amendments, to a committee.
The discussion took political turn, the
opponents of the bill claiming that it was
a scheme to create republican district
and elect republican judges. The friends
of the bill emphatically denied this aliega-
ton, claiming that the bill was in the in
terest of the people OF Southwest Mis-
souri, and had no political significance.
Senator Woods motion was lost and the
house amendments were agreed to The bill
is now ready for the governors sigma
ture.
The governor has approved the act, au
thorizing the consolidation OF the north
and south Springfield and also the bill au
thorizipg the employment of a stenograph-
er for criminal courts In counties of
more than 40 200, and less than 10000
population.
The house bill to repeal the st. Louis
Sunday law came up as the special order
and it was opposed by senator McGinnis,
Castleman, Dawson and Kerwin, and adj
vocated by senators Mackey and
Wood. The bill passed-ayes
q, nays9.
IN THE HOUSE
this afternoon, house bill 633, know as the
Booth local option bill, passed by the fol-
lowing vote: Yeas, 96; nays. Is. The
bill provides that upon application by
petition signed by one tenth OF the quail
fed voters of any county court forty days
or more before the first Tuesday in Novem-
Der 1887, or before the same date bienniaily
thereafter the court shall order an election
to be held to determine whether or not
liquors shall be sold in such county.
House bill 617, providing that the Prise
emit statute shall not be SO construed as to
authorize the state auditor TO institute suit
by distress warrant or otherwise against
any collector for money by him collected
from railroads and paid into the county
treasury TO the use of counties and munic-
ipal townships. passed.
House bill $50, appropriating money
for the deficiencies in appropriations for
the years 1885 and 1886, passed.
House bill establishing a reformation
houe for fallen women and girls, and ap-
propriatlns $4,000 therefor, passed.
House bill approp.iating two-thirds of
the revenue derived from saloon license to
the payment of township railroad indebt-
edness in Missouri, passed.
A motion TO reconsider the vote by
which the Marysville normal school bill
failed to pass was made by Mr.. Moulton,
and pending discussion the house took
recess.
Jefferson City, No, March IL Special
Some excitement was created in the
house lobby this morning by fight be-
tween Frank Bonfls, committee clerk,
and Chief Clerk Hornbuckle, of the house
Bonfils rather got the best of HorDbuckle.
A slight misunderstanding was the cause
of the row.
The house bill reducing the maximum
passenger rate to q cents per mile on
trunk roads and to cents on branch roads
was read third time and passed The
house bill increasing the salary of the adj
jutant general of the state 10 $1,000 per
annum was defssted.
The senate this morning passed rail-
road bill of considerable Importance intro
duced by the committee on internal inn
provements. The bill provides that in all
cases where the right of way of any rail- |
road company passes through any canon,
pass, defle or other similar place where it |
is impossible, without extraordinary ex- |
pense, to construct two railroads, each |
having right of way one hundred feet |
wide, it shall be competent for any court |
of chancery of this state having jurisdic- |
ton of the proper parties to order or de- |
cree that two or more railroad companies |
may construct and operate separate tracks |
over and upon the same right of way.
The house this morning passed the |
Wood local option bill by vote of 80 |
ayes to 20 nays. 1t was sent to the gov
ernor 1t provides for local option by |
counties, excepting cities of $500 irhab-
.&.rt. -, "a vote .hoH h.,